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THOMAS MARABLE, OF PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA.

Letters Patent No. 85,017, dated December l5, 1868.

TOY-PISTOL.

' The Schedule referred to in thse Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom. it 'may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS E. MA RABLE, ofPeters'- will prevent thev ball from accidentally falling out of the barrel, although not inteifering'with the operation ofthe toy when the cord, having been drawn back over the notch, is ,disengaged therefrom by the trigger.

In the drawings- A is the barrel, provided with a tubular bore, a, and a transverse slot, b.

B is the stock.

C is the elastic cord, on each side of the barrel, at- I tached to the latter at c.

E is a short piece of metal, wood, or other suitable material, attached, at its ends, to the loose ends of the two cords C C, and extending through the slot l1.

e is a notch, at the breech of the bore, and in its lower surface, fitted t'o receive and hold the short bar E, in the Vmanner clearly shown in-g. l; and

D is the trigger, adjusted so that, when pulled, as

in an ordinary gun, it disengages the bar E from the notch c, and allows the cords O C to throw the bar forward, with sudden and great violence, to the forward end of the slot I), thereby forcing from the barrel and hurling to -a considerable distance whatever projectile may have been placed therein.

In connection with these parts, arranged and operating as above described' and shown, I cut a vertical slot, m, in the 'upper side of the barrel; and at the point n, I fasten to the barrel a piece, N, of tin or other suitable material, bent down into the barrel through the slot m, as seen in the drawings, and thence extending upward and backward, as seen at a'.

To accommodate themetallic piece N to its situation and purposes, it is made 'wider at the ends than in the slot, as seen in ng. l. 5

The object of this piece is to hold the projectile in position, and prevent it from dropping from the barrel when the muzzle `is lowered. To this end, t is so constructed that it will slightly project into the barrel in front of the ball, as seen in fig'. 2, in which o representsthe projectile, and thereby will prevent the weight ofthe latter from causing itl to fall out, under any cir cumstances; but the rigidity of the spring is so small that, when the elastic cords are sprung, they will, with perfect ease, overcomeits resistance, and carry the projectile forward, as above described. If the spring N is made of soft tinned iron, er other suitable material, it can be regulated at pleasure,'it being only necessary to bend it dwn into the slot more or less, which can be readily done by the pressure of the finger, or by pushing its rear end forward, so as to double 'itat the centre, or drawing it back, so as to straighten it. l l v I do not confine 'myself to any palticular construction of the gun-barrel, or to the materials of which the toy is Iliade, although I would ordinarily make the barrel of some sheet-metal, and the stock ofthe same, or of wood.

Having thus .described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv I. The spring N, when employed in a toy-pistol or gun, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. As an article of manufacture, a toy-gun or pistol, having a barrel, A, slotted at 11 m., a stock, B, a trigger, D, elastic cordsC C, connected with a short rod, E, operating in the slot l1, and a spring, N, operating in the slot m, the whole being constructed to operate substantially as andfcr the purposes specified.

To the above specification of rny invention, I have signed my hand, this 27th day of October, 1868.

T. E. MARABLE.

Witnesses:

CHARLES A. PETTIT, S. C. KEMON. 

